In Shostakovich鈥檚 anniversary year, a chance to hear his blistering operatic tragedy with an 鈥榠nnocent murderess鈥� at its heart. Amanda Majeski stars as Katerina 鈥� the defiant Lady Macbeth 鈥� with tenor Nicky Spence as her lover Sergey and Brindley Sherratt as the brutal patriarch Boris.
This is a powerful story of the consequences of one woman鈥檚 desperate life of loneliness and oppression, Shostakovich鈥檚 opera speaks as clearly to us today as it did to Stalin鈥檚 Soviet Russia in the 1930s.
The opera takes place in a narrow-minded and provincial town of stifling mediocrity, where the male characters are impotent idiots, violent thugs, or both, and the women are almost all victims of physical and emotional abuse.
ENO gave the acclaimed UK stage premiere of the piece in 1987. It is an opera that deals with issues that matter. It exposes the human predicament through music and drama in a manner quite unlike any other art form: powerful, direct, revealing, unsettling.
There will be one interval
Recommended 15+
This production contains mild depictions of violence and sexual assault as well as some mild nudity and strong language.
Amanda Majeski 漏 Acosta
